WESTERN CULTURE: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY I

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Not open to students with credit for HIST SCI 201 . Course Designation: Core GenEd - Natural Science & Wellness + Lab Breadth - Natural Science Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and explain critical developments in how the natural world has been analyzed and understood across premodern and early modern times and cultures. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify and explain how science and its history have served a wide range of purposes in the premodern and early modern periods. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Recognize and evaluate how premodern and early modern science has been deeply shaped by its historical, social, cultural, intellectual, and material contexts. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Interpret and evaluate historical sources to construct persuasive arguments concerning science and its history in the premodern and early modern periods. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and explain critical developments in how the natural world has been analyzed and understood across premodern and early modern times and cultures. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify and explain how science and its history have served a wide range of purposes in the premodern and early modern periods. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Recognize and evaluate how premodern and early modern science has been deeply shaped by its historical, social, cultural, intellectual, and material contexts. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Interpret and evaluate historical sources to construct persuasive arguments concerning science and its history in the premodern and early modern periods. Audience: Undergraduate